Miscellaneous horizontal actor prints,
Part I
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This section lists horizontal prints (yoko-e) of actors. Unless otherwise noted, each sheet is approximately 10 by 14 inches (25 by 36 centimeters), a size known as ôban. Two of Kuniyoshi’s series of horizontal actor prints are available elsewhere on this website: Vengeance at Denka Tea House, the 1835 Kanadehon Chûshingura, and Untitled series of Chûshingura chûban. Kuniyoshi’s series “Kanadehon Chûshingura” from 1854-55 is available on another website. I am grateful to Robert Pryor for his contributions to this section. |
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Actors: Top: Mimasu
Gennosuke I as Chiharu, Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Yorinobu Bottom: Bandô Mitsugorô IV as Watanabe no Tsuna, Seki Sanjûrô II
as Sadamitsu (貞光), Onoe
Kikugorô Play: Bandô musha tsunagate Hajime (坂東武者綱手始) Date: 11th
month of 1832 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: NOTE: This is a diptych
composed of two horizontal ôban
sheets. I am grateful to Marc DeVriese
for this image. |
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Actors: Iwai Shijaku I as Koiso (小いそ) and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Inada Kôzô (稲田幸蔵) Play: Iwai uta
Soga no kaomise (岩井歌曽我対面) Theater: Nakamura Date: 2nd month
of 1839 Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya Uhei |
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Actors: Nakamura
Utaemon IV as Yaoya Hanbei Play:
Shimekazari otakara Soga (七五三翫宝曽我) Date:
2nd month of 1840 Theater:
Ichimura Publisher: Kawaguchi-ya
Uhei |
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Actors: Ichikawa Danjûrô VIII as Matsuwaka Maru
(松若丸), Onoe Kikugorô III as Souta (惣太), and Bandô Shuka I as the Buddhist nun Seigen
(清玄尼) Play: Hatsu Sakura Onoe no Iwafuji
(初桜尾上岩藤) Date: 3rd
month of 1847 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Ebisu-ya
Shoshichi |
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Actors: Sawamura Chôjûrô V as Yoshida Matsuwakamaru
(left), Bandô Shuka I as Seigen
(center), and Onoe Kikugorô Play: Hatsu Sakura Onoe no Iwafuji
(初桜尾上岩藤) Date: 3rd
month of 1847 Theater: Ichimura Size: Chûban (about 7 by 10 inches or 18 by 25
centimeters) Publisher: No seal NOTE: I am grateful to Michel Ouellet for this image,
which is similar to Kuniyoshi’s ôban
triptychs:
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Print title: 53 Stations (Gojûsan eki), Station 51 (Minakuchi) Actors: Sawamura
Sôjûrô V as Nippon Daemon (日本駄右エ門, left), Onoe
Kikugorô Play: Onoe Kikugorô ichidai banashi (尾上梅寿一代噺, The Lifetime
of Onoe Kikugorô Date: 7th
month of 1847 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Ezaki-ya
Kichibei I am grateful to Judy Hahn for information about this print. |
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Print title: 53 Stations
Okazaki (Gojûsan eki Okazaki,
五十三次 岡崎) Actors: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Inaba no suke (因幡之助, left), Onoe Kikugorô Play: Onoe Kikugorô ichidai banashi (尾上梅寿一代噺, The Lifetime
of Onoe Kikugorô Date: 7th
month of 1847 (censors Hama and Kinugasa) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Ezaki-ya
Kichibei |
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Actors: Bandô Shuka I as the courtesan Hakata Kojorô,
Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Komatsuya Sôshichi, and Ichikawa Danjûrô
VIII as Kezoni Kuemon Play: Mimasu Dokko Hakata no Uchikake (三升独鈷博多襠) Date: 1st month
of 1848 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura) Theater: Ichimura Size: Chûban (about 7 by 10 inches or 18 by 25
centimeters) Publisher: No seal |
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Print title: History of
Kanegafuchi (Kanegafuchi no Yurai, 鐘ヶ淵の由来) Actors: From left:
Fujikawa Kayu as O-Kumi of Eiraku-ya (娘おくみ), Ichikawa
Danjûrô VIII as the retainer (shimobe)
Yoshida Gunsuke (下部軍助), and Ichikawa
Kodanji IV as Hanakawado Hôkaibô (花川戸法界坊), Nakamura Bungorô II as the head clerk (bantô)
Chôkurô (番頭長九郎) and Ichikawa Kôzô as the apprentice (detchi)
Kôzô (てつち幸蔵) Play: Kaidan Sumidagawa
(怪談隅田川) Date: 6th
month of 1848 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Ningyo-ya
Takichi |
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Another state of the above design with the
actors’ names added |
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Print title: Yohei and the
Street Palanquin (Yohei Tsugikago no zu, 与兵衛辻駕の圖) Actors: Ichikawa
Danjûrô VIII as Minami Yohei (南与兵衛, left), Bandô Shuka I as the courtesan Miyake of Fuji-ya emerging from a palanquin (center), and Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Minagata Jûjibei (南方十次兵衛, right) Play: Tsuma Mukaeiro no fumizuki (妻迎艶文月) Date: 6th
month of 1848 (censors Muramatsu and Yoshimura) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Ningyo-ya Takichi |
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Another state with the actor’s names. The foreground and tree trunk are not
colored. |
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Actors: Sawamura Genpei II as
the child Ishidô Maru (石童丸) and Sawamura Sojûrô V as
priest Karukaya Dôshin (かるかや道心) Play: Zôha Tsukushi no iezuto (増補筑紫礎) Date: 7th month
of 1848 (censors Hama and Kinugasa) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Nakayone |
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An alternate state of the above design |
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Actors: Sawamura Genpei II as the child Ishidô
Maru and Sawamura Sojûrô V as priest Karukaya Dôshin Play: Zôha Tsukushi no iezuto (増補筑紫礎) Date: 7th month
of 1848 Theater: Kawarasaki Size: Chûban (about 7 by 10 inches or 18 by 25
centimeters) Publisher: |
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Actors: Ichikawa
Danjûrô VIII as Soga Jûrô Sukenari (曽我十郎祐成) and Bandô
Hikosaburô IV as Norika Chôbei Play: Hatsumoto yui Soga no
kyodai (初元結曽我鏡台) Date: 1st
month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome) Theater: Kawarazaki Publisher: Jôshû-ya
Kinzô NOTE: This print is
approximately 7 by 10 inches (18 by 25 centimeters), a size known as Chûban |
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Actors: Matsumoto
Kinshô I as Senô Tarô Kaneyasu (瀬尾太兼康), Sawamura
Chôjûrô V as priest Shunkan (俊寛僧都), Iwai
Kumesaburô Play: Takane no kumo Yorokobi Soga (高蓉岳雲賀曽我) Date: 1st
month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Theater: Nakamura Publisher: Izutsu-ya
Shôkichi NOTE: There is the
number one in a circle (㊀), to the left of the publisher’s seal. I am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for information
about this print. |
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An alternate state without the number one in a
circle (㊀) on the preceding print |
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Actors: Matsumoto
Kinshô I as Senô Tarô Kaneyasu (right), Sawamura Chôjûrô V as priest Shunkan
(center), and Onoe Baikô IV as Kosho Kichiza (left) Play: Takane no kumo
Yorokobi Soga (高蓉岳雲賀曽我) Date: 1st
month of 1849 Theater: Nakamura Size: Chûban (about 7 by 10 inches or 18 by 25
centimeters) Publisher: Sano-ya Kihei I
am grateful to Lucienne Parkan for the image. |
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Actors: Ichkawa
Danjûrô VIII as Kinugawa Tanizô (絹川谷蔵, left) and
Onoe Kikujirô II as the ghost of the courtesan Miuraya Takao (高尾ゆうこん, right) Play: Date kurabe Okuni kabuki (伊達競阿国戯場, The Date Rivalry and Okini Kabuki) Date: 3rd
month of 1849 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô |
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Another state with the actors’ names added |
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Actors: Ichikawa
Danjûrô VIII as Musashibo Benkei, Bandô Takesaburô I as Minamoto no
Yoshitsune, and Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Togashi no Saemon Play: Kanjinchô (勧進帳) Date: 3rd
month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Theater: Kawarasaki Publisher: Izutsu-ya Shôkichi |
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Another state with a border added, simulating
Western picture frames |
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Actors: Seki Sanjûrô Play: Omegumi niuruo Iwafuji (恵閏初夏藤) Date: 4th
month of 1849 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Tama-ya
Sôsuke |
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Actors: Seki Sanjûrô Play: Omegumi niuruo Iwafuji (恵閏初夏藤) Date: 4th
month of 1849 (censors Hama and Magome) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Tsujioka-ya
Bunsuke |
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Actors: Seki Sanjurô Play: Omegumi niuruo Iwafuji (恵閏初夏藤) Date: 4th month of 1849 Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Kobayashi Taijirô |
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Another state with the actors’ names
added |
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Actors: Nakamura Utaemon IV as tsubone Iwafuji (局岩藤, left) and
Ichimura Uzaemon XII as Ohatsu
(おはつ, right) Play: Omegumi niuruo Iwafuji (恵閏初夏藤) Date: 4th
month of 1849 (censors Fuku and Muramatsu) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Kazusa-ya Iwazô |
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Actors: Ichikawa Kuzô II as ryôrinin Kisuke (料理人喜助, left), Onoe Baikô IV in a female role as Okon (centre)
holding a scroll and being threatened by Sawamura Chojurô
V as Fukuoka Mitsugi (福岡 みつぎ, right) Play: Ise ondo koi no netaba (伊勢音頭恋寝刃, The Ise
Dances and Love’s Dull Blade) Date: 5th
month of 1849 (censors Kinugasa and Yoshimura) Theater: Ichimura Publisher: Tsujioka-ya Bunsuke |
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Another state with the actors’ names added |
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Actors: Ichimura Uzaemon XII as
Nagoya Kosanza (left, 名古屋小山三) and Nakamura Utaemon IV as Murasaki Daijin (right, Murasaki daijin jitsuha Monogusamura Tarôsaku, 紫大尽 実ハ物草村太郎作) Play: Monogusa Tarô saku tekuda
no yadake (物草太郎作手管歌当) Date: 3rd month of 1841 Theater: Ichimura Size: Chûban (about 7 by 10 inches or 18 by 25
centimeters) Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô |
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Actors: Onoe Tamizô II as kitsune
(fox) Tadanobu (狐忠信) and Onoe Eizaburô
Play: Yoshitsune Senbon zakura (裏表千本桜) Date: 5th
month of 1841 Theater: Nakamura Size: Chûban (about 7 by 10 inches or 18 by 25
centimeters) Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô |
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Actors: Iwai Shijaku I as the courtesan Sugawara, actually Kiku no Mae
(けいせい菅原 実ハ菊のまへ, left) and
Ichikawa Ebizô V as Ubara
no Tagohei (莵原の田五平, right) Play: Ichinotani futaba gunki (一谷嫩軍記) Date: 4th
month of 1841 Theater: Kawarasaki Size: Chûban (about 7 by 10 inches or 18 by 25
centimeters) Publisher: Jôshû-ya Kinzô |
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